Improvement in snapper-loops for whips



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HARRISON H. JONES, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT I N SNAPPER-LOOPS FOR WHIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,550, dated November2, 1875 application filed October 15, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON H. JoNEs, of Newark, in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Snapper-Loops for Whips and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 represents the snapper-end of awhip having my improved loop. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the loopwith the snapper detached; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of thesame.

Similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

This invention consists, first, in the construction of an elastic andadjustable snapper-loop; and, second, in the combination of said loopwith the snapper-end of a whip, substantially as hereinafter more fullySi t forth,

and pointed out in the claim.

A represents a flexible tube made of indiarubber, or similar suitablematerial, and having an upper solid part or shank, a, which terminatesin the loop or eye b. The snapper B, which is of the usual construction,is inserted through the loop I) in the same manner as it is insertedthrough the eye of an ordinary Whip, and is then looped as usual.

My improved snapper-loop, consisting of the parts A a b, is readilyadjusted upon the snapper-end of a whip by expanding the flexible tubeor socket A and drawing it over the end, Where it will be held firmly'inplace by the contraction of the tube.

It may be applied to new as Well as to old whips, and will be found tobe of special advantage in cases where the eye has brokenoff, as it maybe readily adjusted by any one, and is far more durable than the eyes asusually made. The flexible shank a will give when the Whip is jerked insnapping, thereby taking otf much of the strain from other parts of thewhip. This device may be made of various sizes, and varying lengths ofthe tube A and shank a, to suit the different styles and Having thusdescribed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States a As a new article of manufacture, the improvedflexible and elastic snapper-loop for whips, herein described,consisting of the tube or socket A, shank a, and eye 1), substantiallyas and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HARRISON H. JONES. Witnesses:

J. G. HANKS, UHARLES T. HALEY.

sizes of whips to which they are to be adapt-'

